Corset



Jan. 2, 1934.

R. B. QUINE v 1,942,038

CORSET Filed May 6. 1935 2 Sheets-Sheet 2 s /f 27, /l/ 4 /4 b5? ZZ Patented Jan. 2, 1934 UNTED STATES PATENT FFICE c 3 Claims.

This invention relates to a body-embracing band constituting a garment of the corset type, and composed of sections connected at the front of the garment by positive or non-adjustable fasteners, and adjustably connected at the back by means including eyelets and lacings.

The invention is embodied in a band thus characterized, a zone of which is provided with ilexible tabs adapted to be tensioned in such manner as to exert supporting pressure on the sacro-iliac region of the wearers body, improved adjustable lacing means being provided for tensioning said tabs, and at the same time causing the tabs to adjust the band Zone by contraction, so that the tabs and the rear edge portion of the band section exert a double pressure on the sacro-iliac region.

Of the accompanying drawings forming a part of this specicatiom- Figure 1 is a front view, and Figure 2 a rear View showing a band embodying the invention adjusted on the wearers body.

Figure 3 is a view showing the outer side of the opened band.

Figure 4 shows diagrammatically the adjuster hereinafter described for contracting an upper zone of the band.

Figure 5 shows diagrammatically the Vadjuster hereinafter described for contracting a middle zone of the band, and at the same time tensioning the tabs associated therewith.

Figure 6 is a view showing the inner side of the opened band.

Figure '7 is a section on line 7 7 of Figure 1.

Figure 8 is a partial section on line 8-8 of Figure 1.

Figure 9 is a side view of the preferred buckle constituting an element of each adjuster.

Figure 10 is a view similar to Figure 9 showing a portion oi the members of the adjuster straps connected by the buckle.

Figure 11 is a section on line 11-11 of Figure 10.

Figure 12 is a fragmentary view similar to portions of Figure 6 omitting some of the looped tapes hereinafter described, and showing the rear edges of the band sections and the tabs widely spaced apart.

Figure 13 is a fragmentary view similar to portions of Figure 12, and showing the rear edges of the band sections and the free ends of the tabs same parts in all of the gures.

brought closer together than as shown by Figure 6.

In the drawings 12 and 13 designates the two sections of the band, said sections having sub-` stantially vertical rear edges provided with eyelets le and substantially vertical front edges provided with fasteners such as hooks 15 and eyes 16, 60 whereby they may be positively connected.

In the embodiment here shown the sections include body portions constituting the back and sides of the band'and extensions 17 and 18 constituting the ends of horizontal upper and middle zones of the band, the rear vertical edges of the sections being longer than the front vertical edges which are formed on said extensions. The eyelets 1e in said rear edges constitute continuous rows coextensive with said edges.

The lower ends or" the body portions of the sections project below the lower ends of the extensions 1'7 and 18, and constitute a lower zone of the band.

In Figures 6 and 11, 191 and 192 designates 75 tabs which may be of any suitable flexible fabric, and as here shown include major portions of inelastic flexible fabric, and minor portions 19a of elastic fabric.

Said tabs have attached end portions secured, as by stitches 20, to band section portions constituting the middle Zone of the band, the secured ends of the tabs being adjacent the vertical edges of the sections. The tabs have free end portions extending toward said rear edges and provided with eyelets 21. The tab 191 is secured to the section 12, and the tab 192 to the section 13.

The tabs are formed and arranged to bear on the sacro-iliac region of the body when the band is in use.

The band is provided with upper and lower adjusters adapted to contract the upper and middle zones after the front edges thereof have been connected by the fasteners 15, 16, the lower adjusters being adapted also to tension the tabs 191 and 192, the arrangement being such that the tabs and rear edge portions may be pulled toward each other to stretch and tighten both the tabs and the rear edge portions of the middle zone against the sacro-iliac region of the wearers body.

The upper adjuster includes a pair of pull straps 22 adjustably connected with the sections 12 and 13 by anchoring straps 23 attached at 23a to the lower sides of said sections and pass- 105 ing through slits 25 in the sections, said anchoring straps having buckles 27 adjustably engaging the pull straps 22 which are located on the outer sides of the sections. The upper adjuster includes also two series or groups of lacing tapes 28 attached to the outer ends of the pull straps 22, and engaged with eyelets 14 in the upper portions of the sections, as shown by Figures 2 and 3.

The upper adjuster is caused by a pull in 5 opposite directions on the pull straps 22 to contract the upper zone of the band.

The upper adjuster is not claimed herein.

The lower adjuster constitutes an element of the present invention, and is shown diagrammatically by Figure 5. Said lower adjuster is associated with the band sections constituting the middle zone, and includes pull straps 33 adjustably connected with the sections 12 and 13 by anchoring straps 31 attached at 32 to the 15 inner sides of the sections, and passing through slits therein. Said anchoring straps have buckles 34 similar to the buckles 27 adjustably engaging the pull straps 31, said pull straps being similar to those of the upper adjuster.

The lower adjuster includes also two series of tapes 38 which are preferably looped as best shown by Figures 5, 6, 12 and 13, each looped tape having end portions connected by a neck portion 36.

rlhe end portions of the looped tapes 38 of one series are fixed to the outer end of the free strap member 33, bearing on the band section 13, while the end portions of the tapes 38 of the other series are fixed to the outer end of the free strap 3G member 33 bearing on the section 12.

Figures 12 and 13 show only two of the looped tapes, the others being omitted for clearness.

The neck portion 36 of the upper tape, shown by Figure 12, bears on the tab 191 between two eyelets 21 therein, and the end portions of said tape pass through said eyelets and extend therefrom across the gap between the rear edges of the band sections, and through eyelets 14 in the band section 13, and reversely from said eye- 40 lets 14 back across said gap to the free pull strap member 33 bearing on the band section 12.

The course of the lower tape shown by Figure 12 is opposite that of the upper tape. By reference to Figure 6 it will be seen that all of the tapes are arranged as described with reference to Figure 12.

It will be seen that the end portions of the looped tapes are bent at the section eyelets 14 through which they pass, so that said end por- 50. tions have stretches 38 connected with the free strap members 33, and stretches 39 connected by the necks 36.

The arrangement is such that when the free strap members 33 are pulled away from each A other, as indicated by the arrows in Figure 12,

the tabs 191 and 192 are pulled toward each other, and at the same time the rear edges of the band sections are pulled toward each other, as

indicated by Figures 13.

The strap portions 33 therefore constitute an embodiment of lacing means manually operable to pull the tabs and the rear marginal or end portions of the band sections toward each other, and thereby stretch and tighten both the tabs and said end portions against the sacro-iliac region of the wearers body. In other words, the result of a pull of the strap members 33 away from each other is a double pressure on the central portion of the sacro-iliac region, caused in part by the rear edge portions of the band sections, and in part by the outer end portions of the tabs, this pressure being more eiective in affording relief from weakness in the sacro-iliac region than would be by pressure caused only by the contraction of the band sections.

The neck portions 36 of the looped tapes constitute an anchorage causing an equal strain on the end portions, or stretches 38 and 39. I do not limit myself, however, to an anchorage provided by neck portions of looped tapes, and may substitute therefor the single independent tapes 40, shown by Figure 14. Each tape 40 is attached at one end to a pull strap 33, and extends therefrom across the gap between the rear ends of the band sections, through an eyelet 14 in one of said sections, and back across the gap to the free end of a tab, to which the tape is anchored by stitches or other fastening means 41, the tab eyelets 21 being omitted.

The tapes 40 thus arranged are operable by the strap members 33 to pull the tabs and the rear marginal portions of the band sections toward each other, and thereby stretch and tighten both the tabs and the said rear portions against the sacro-iliac region of the Wearers body. It will be seen that each lacing tape of the lower adjuster is arranged to simultaneously exert force in one direction on a band section, and in the opposite direction on a tab on the opposite band section.

The lower ends of the body portions of the band sections project downwardly below the extensions 17 and 18, as above stated, and the eyeleted rear edges of the sections are therefore longer than the front edges.

The downwardly projecting rear portions of the sections constitute an interrupted lower zone adapted to be contracted by a lacing tape 32 engaged with eyelets 14 in the lower portions of the rear edges of the sections.

Certain features of the above described garment are disclosed by my Patent No. 1,887,431, granted November 8, 1932, and are therefore not claimed in this application.

I claim:

1. A corset consisting of two sections having eyelets 14 in their back edge portions, flexible tabs located Within the corset, each tab being attached at one end to the mid length portion of a section, and having a free end near the back edge of the section to which it is attached, said tabs being formed and arranged to bear on the sacroiliac region of the wearers body, their free ends being spaced from each other and overlapped by the back edges of the sections when the corset is spread out or flattened, and means for simultaneously tensioning the corset and the tabs, said means including two aligned pull straps oppositely movable on the back portions of the sections, buckles anchored to said sections and adjustably connecting the pull straps therewith, and groups of lacing tapes attached to and diverging from the free ends of the pull straps, each tape extending from its pull strap across the back gap between the sections through an eyelet 14 at one side of said gap, and from said eyelet in a reverse direction across said back gap, and secured to the free end of a tab to exert a pulling force thereon, said lacing tapes avoiding theeyelets on that section upon which the tab, controlled by said lacing tapes, is secured, each lacing tape being arranged to simultaneously exert force in one direction on a section and in the opposite direction on a tab on the opposite section, so that, when the pull straps are pulled in opposite directions the tapes ,contract said back gap and cause the rear portions of the corset sections to exert pressure on the sacroiliac region, and at the same time contract the gap between the free ends of the tabs and cause the tabs to exert an additional pressure on said region, each pressure being maintained by said anchored buckles.

2. A corset consisting of two sections having eyelets 14 in their back edge portions, exible tabs located within the corset, each tab being attached at one end to the mid length portion of a section, and having a free end near the back edge of the section to which it is attached, said end being provided with eyelets 21, said tabs being formed and arranged to bear on the sacroiliac region of the wearers body, their free ends being spaced from each other and overlapped by the back edges of the sections when the corset is spread out or iiattened, and means for simultaneously tensioning the corset sections and the tabs, said means including two aligned pull straps oppositely movable on the back portions of the corset sections, buckles anchored to the sections and adjustably connecting the pull straps therewith, and groups of lacing tapes attached to and diverging from the free ends of the pull straps, each tape being approximately U-shaped, and having elongated portions extending from its pull strap across the back gap between the sections through two eyelets 14 at one side of said gap, and from said eyelets in a reverse direction across said back gap, the U-shaped tape having a neck portion 36 extending between two tab eyelets 2l whereby the tape is anchored to the free end of a tab to exert a pulling force thereon, said lacing tapes avoiding the eyelets on that section upon which the tab, controlled by said lacing tapes, is secured, each pull tape being arranged to simultaneously exert force in one direction on a section, and in the opposite direction on a tab, so that when the pull straps are pulled in opposite directions, the tapes contract said back gap and cause the rear portions of the corset sections to exert pressure on the sacroiliac region, and at the same time contract the gap between the free ends of the tabs and cause the tabs to exert an additional pressure on said region, each pressure being maintained by said anchored buckles.

3. A corset consisting of two sections having gap-separated back edges provided with eyelets, and adapted to be laced together, flexible tabs located within the corset adjacent the back portion thereof, and having forward ends fixed to the corset sections and free end portions extending from the xed ends toward the back edges of said sections, and separated from each other by a gap, said tabs being arranged to bear on the sacroiliac region of the wearers body, adjustable lacing means including two separate pull straps, bearing, the one on one corset section and the other on the opposite corset section, said straps being adjustably anchored to said sections and longitudinally adjustable thereon in opposite directions, and two series of lacing tapes, the tapes of each series being attached to one of the pull straps, and each tape extending from the pull strap of one corset section across the gap between the two corset sections, then loosely through an eyelet in the opposite corset section, and from said eyelet reversely across said gap to an anchorage on the free end of the tab of the corset section to which its pull strap is attached, said lacing tapes avoiding the eyelets on that section upon which the tab, controlled by said lacing tapes, is secured, the tapes and straps extending obliquely downward and forward sothat when said straps are adjusted longitudinally away from said gap the lacing tapes are tensioned, and each series thereof acts simultaneously to draw its tab toward the other tab, and to draw the corset section to which said other tab is attached toward its own corset section, thereby to tighten the back marginal portions of both corset sections against the sacroiliac region, and to tighten the front of the corset against the lower portion of the abdomen of the wearer.

ROSE B. QUINE. 

